This section contains the 'Challenging Age' documents which consider the age related barriers to employment.

This report explores how social networks and attachment to place shape young people’s attitudes towards education, training and work opportunities, and looks at the scope for interventions to ‘widen horizons’ and enhance access to opportunities by Anne E Green and Richard J White, (2007) for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

The Third Age Employment Network (TAEN) has published a 14 page pamphlet, which you can access here.

This review examines the evidence relevant to the issue of extending the working age beyond the traditional retirement ages for men and for women.

Five papers, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, explore ways that choices and opportunities in later working life can be improved.

DWP Report on 'Factors affecting the labour market participation of older workers' by Alun Humphrey et al. (2003) highlights how ‘semi-retirement’ can be seen as a way of easing the transition from work to full retirement. Semi-retirement is associated with self-employment, with employees moving from permanent to fixed- or short-term contracts, with a reduction in working hours and with a move away from people’s main line of work.

You may also wish to use the LMI Future Trends section of this website, for labour market information on age.